Photo by Geof Huth

Reading
Robert Grenier’s
Cambridge, M’ass

Some poems by Chinua Achebe

NY Times obit for Achebe

Marjorie Perloff:
John Ashbery in the 21^st Century

Homage to Tom Raworth

Cathy Park Hong & Mores McWreath: The Rub

Hong, Marilyn Hacker, Alfred Corn et al
jump into the Mlinko-Rich brouhaha
(subscribers only)

On the road with Erica Hunt

Opening this week:
On the Road

Kerouac to Marlon Brando:
be my Dean Moriarty

Talking with Jean-Marc Barr,
who plays Kerouac in
Big Sur

Bob Perelman:
listening to WCW

Hank Lazer on Larry Eigner

A poem by Miguel Hernández

Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good

Kenneth Goldsmith:
‘artsy-fartsy poet’

Goldsmith:
transforming the discourse

Amazon
is building
the CIA’s cloud

Revisiting Iraq
thru the eyes of an exiled poet

Chicago banning Persepolis?

Traumatic memory
in Muriel Rukeyser’s
Spanish Civil War Poetry

A Rukeyser website & conference

Molly Weatherfield
as one with Pam Rosenthal

Poetry in Red Dress

Iovis in Bolinas

Toni Morrison @ West Point

Straw paper is happening

Books: not dead yet!

In Cambridge, MA,
Porter Square Books
is for sale

B&N vs. Simon & Shoestore

You cannot restrict book resales
through international ©

Daisy Fried’s
Kissinger at the Louvre (Three Drafts)

Poetry & sleep

A space for punctuation

Paul Siegell reading
or trying to
@ Fergie’s Pub
on St Paddy’s Day weekend

Talking with
Enrique Vila-Matas

Gotham City Library (1945)

The Christian fiction market
as a market

Philip Roth is ready for his nap

Roth’s Newark

Inscrutable Anne Carson

When the dictionary reads you

Absurdism vs. the academy

TS Eliot:
The Triumph of BS

The poet on Columbia’s
5,000 peso note

Tony Harrison’s Selected Poems

Frank Wood’s Racing the Stable Clock

Poets ranked by beard weight

Merwin wins
Zbigniew Herbert Prize

Columbian poetry goes bilingual in Bogotá

Digging Neruda

Marion Tracy’s Giant in the Doorway

Famous authors’ unpublished books

Online papers by linguist Haj Ross

E-books now count
as part of UK’s CPI

Dana Littlepage Smith’s
The Skin of Mercy

Dear Asshole:
Joyce’s postcards to his brother

Amber Dermont’s Damage Control

Vides of famous authors
includes JD Salinger, Anne Frank,
Thomas Pynchon

Douglas Adams:
still the king of
comic sci-fi

EL James to pen
how-to-write tome

Yu Hua on stealing books for the poor

Top 10 fictional
gender reassignments

Bob Grumman:
math, love & poetry

Amazon Prime buyers
purchase twice as many books

“Blaster” Al Ackerman has died

Cambridge UP suing over
photocopies in course packets

Joyce Carol Oates’ The Accursed

Sherwood Anderson:
Certain Things Last

A compact Coetzee’s
Childhood of Jesus

Auster & Coetzee correspond

What happens
when you let Louisiana
dictate its textbooks

A second look
@ 2^nd books

The worst book cover ever
goes to a volume by
Stephen King

Robert Archambeau: The Poet Resigns

Is poetry good for pigs?

Poetry, cats & jazz

Chris Stroffolino & the piano van

Cyndi Lauper as a major composer

The autobiography of Richard Hell

Schwabsky’s Bernini

Turmoil at the de Young

An arts incubator on
Chicago’s south side

Ai Weiwei
getting into music

Could The Harlem Shake kill sampling?

Dominic Elliott,
an assistant to David Hockney,
found dead

Remembering Lisa de Kooning

Cy Twombly’s estate
all tangled up in court

Berndnaut Smilde:
when art is so much smoke

All of Audubon’s watercolors
on display

When the art scene is a party scene

Talking with Colin McGinn

Zombies & consciousness

Pew Research:
State of the News Media 2013

This same news media
is throwing
Bradley Manning to the wolves

When philosophers watch reality TV

Existentialism & evolution: the odd couple

Drone ethics
& other oxymorons

Mali media strikes over editor’s arrest

The Unabomber as philosopher

Howard Zinn’s
mutilations of American history